How to Use botnet in a Sentence

botnet

noun
  • The botnet runs the miner with (at most) one argument that tells it to print its logs.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Vosoughi agrees that his paper cannot whether the use of botnets changed at the end of the sample period.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
  • In their labs, the police could then test how certain hacks would disrupt the botnet.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 5 June 2021
  • The infamous botnet known as Trickbot got a taste of itss own medicine last week.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.
    Lucian Constantin, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
  • The Emotet botnet is one of the most effective email malware campaigns around.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The team also claims that many hacker forums are giving the botnet away for free.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The zLabs team says that the Keksec malware group is responsible for the Cloud9 botnet.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The blows kept the TrickBot operators scrambling to keep the botnet alive.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless.
    Barath Raghavan, Wired, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Twitter botnets are having to adapt their behavior in the wake of the platform’s crackdown.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Both men set up Google email accounts on the same IP address used by a server that sent commands to the botnet, Google said in its court filing.
    Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The past decade has recorded many botnet cyber-attacks.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But taking down a botnet, the company concluded, was not a work-from-home task.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The court order goes on to suggest the FBI developed a way to hijack the botnet, and identify the infected routers.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • OpenAI had not responded to a request for comment about the botnet by time of posting.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In other cases, hackers used the botnet to spread malware and phishing emails to victims.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
  • The botnet then used that pilfered information to send links to friends of the infected person.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
  • The botnet is said in government court filings to be under the control of the Russian hackers known as the Sofacy Group.
    David Shortell, CNN, 24 May 2018
  • The worm would infect devices and add them to a botnet that would continue looking for devices to infect.
    Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Mirai and other IoT botnets have been a fact of Internet life ever since.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The botnet was available on the open internet, ostensibly as a proxy server from a provider named RSocks.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 June 2022
  • Putting it plainly, this botnet was, on average, 4,000 times stronger due to its use of virtual machines and servers.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • In recent weeks, U.S. Cyber Command also launched a campaign against the botnet.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Using that same malware, Bogachev also created one of the largest botnets in 2011, known as GameoverZeus.
    Jack Detsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2017
  • The botnet has targeted over 300 banks worldwide and has evolved beyond a banking Trojan, Walsh said.
    Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Given the large amounts of bandwidth available to many such devices, the floods of junk traffic are often huge, giving the botnet as a whole tremendous power.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • At the same time, the resulting infections can give hackers control over the computer, paving the way for a botnet, or an army of enslaved machines.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Operation Endgame, the name Europol gave to the takedown effort, is the largest operation to ever target botnets, the officials said.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024

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